Thanks for posting the round-by-round report, donnellon! Can you let us know the source, please? According to the book on Burns v Johnson by Jeff Wells ( Boxing Day: The Fight that Changed the World , HarperSports, Sydney, 1998), the newspapers of the time carried reports on the fight that varied wi...

There's a great radio documentary that the BBC broadcast on Boxing Day called 'The Galveston Giant'. It's about Jack Johnson and covers the Burns v Johnson amongst other highlights of Johnson's career. Have a listen at http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/5lxmas08/5lxmas08_20081225-2200a.mp3...

Did I say there was no footage of Burns v Johnson online?

Well, there is a small portion on YouTube:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=naJDbWpAiRA

I don't think any footage of the Burns-Johnson fight is available online. However, I know that the National Film and Sound Archive (an Australian government agency) has in its archives some surviving film footage of the fight. 13 minutes and 23 seconds' worth of footage survives (http://colsearch.nf...